Are you also yearning for a simple Windows 7 x64 SSD caching software package, one that’d work with any laptop or desktop brand, with any brand of SSD? Even better, no add-on RAID adapter required. Just pop in an SSD and install the software, and you’ve got the average user’s large C: drive accelerated. No tuning required.

Instead, what we seem to be seeing a lot of lately are proprietary bundles, such as:

Now imagine they all allow you to use any SSD or even multiple SSDs as cache, even for your bootable 3TB main boot drive.

Imagine support for all form factors, including today’s SATA2, SATA3, mSATA, PCI, or tomorrow’s Thunderbolt.

Pipe dream, I know. Just sayin’. Maybe by 2014.

But hopefully by then, pure SSD is affordable, even for multiple terabytes of personal cloud data. If that’s the way we’re headed, we’ll looking back on 2012 as the strange year of hybrid storage stop-gaps. You know, as we drive our pure electric vehicles around.

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